Asked if it was a good idea for Holloway to have this meeting, Kelly said: “I can give her legal advice. She’s a mother without a daughter. I know she didn’t tell me ahead of time because I would have asked her to exercise a little more caution.”

However, Van der Sloot’s lawyer, Maximo Altez, told NBC News that the face-to-face meeting had lasted “less than one minute.”

Altez told NBC News that the visit was intended “to create a TV special which would include her, the Flores family, and an interview with Joran van der Sloot.”

According to Altez, the Dutch media “snuck Beth Holloway-Twitty into Castro Castro without identifying who she was and put her face-to-face with Van der Sloot.”

She told Van der Sloot that she had “no hate in her soul” for him, Altez told NBC News, at which point the Dutchman handed her Altez’s business card, claiming that he could not speak to her without his lawyer present.

Prison officials then removed Holloway-Twitty, de Vries and the rest of the Dutch news team from the jail.

Jose Camarena, lawyer for the Flores family, confirmed that a Dutch production company had approached the Flores family to do a story with Ricardo Flores Sr., father of Stephany, and Holloway-Twitty.

Ricardo Flores Sr. declined to participate, but said his son Enrique met with Holloway-Twitty on camera.

Camarena said that Holloway-Twitty “is being paid by the Dutch media to participate in a soap-opera-like special.”

However, Kelly said his client may have decided to go to the prison after Van der Sloot’s most recent jailhouse interview to a Dutch TV reporter.

“I think what triggered it was that he said in this interview that she had been pestering him,” Kelly added. “The message was, ‘If you thought you’d been pestered before, you ain’t seen nothing yet.’ I just think she wanted him to know she wasn’t going away.”

Kelly said Holloway’s visit had nothing to do with the extortion case against Van der Sloot in the U.S. Federal prosecutors charged him in earlier this year for allegedly extorting money in exchange for information about Holloway.

“This had nothing to do with the case. It was a mother trying to bring her daughter home,” he said.

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